Seizing back control: The ILX lol brexit is how we're all gonna die thread.

it makes you yearn for the obsessive labelling of a modern master like ben garrison, it really does

Oh so it's anti-Yankee propaganda:

A 1774 British print depicted the tarring and feathering of Boston Commissioner of Customs John Malcolm. Tarring and feathering was a ritual of humiliation and public warning that stopped just short of serious injury. Victims included British officials such as Malcolm and American merchants who violated non-importation by importing British goods. Other forms of public humiliation included daubing victims’ homes with the contents of cesspits, or actual violence against property, such as the burning of stately homes and carriages. This anti-Patriot print showed Customs Commissioner Malcolm being attacked under the Liberty Tree by several Patriots, including a leather-aproned artisan, while the Boston Tea Party occurred in the background. In fact, the Tea Party had taken place four weeks earlier.

why did they tar and feather that poor yeti

Other forms of public humiliation included daubing victims’ homes with the contents of cesspits

one for future antifash protestors to bear in mind, just sayin like

xp
they might have been from Hartelepool originally.

In Boston in January 1774, John Malcom argued with Bostonian George Hewes over Malcom’s rough treatment of a boy in the street. Malcom struck Hewes with his cane and fled the scene. Word of the assault spread, and Bostonians congregated at Malcom’s home, eventually dragging him outside. He was thrown into a cart and driven through the city streets. The crowd had Malcom stripped and covered first with tar and then feathers, giving him a "modern jacket." The riotous parade continued through the city, stopping periodically to demand Malcom renounce British authority, which he refused to do. The mob drove on past the Liberty Tree, where they threatened to hang Malcom. They put a rope around his neck, tied him to the gallows, and beat him with clubs. Malcom, severely injured, was eventually driven back to his home and unceremoniously rolled off the cart.

The milkshake is the modern "modern jacket".

that very scene was recreated quite brutally in the very good HBO John Adams mini-series iirc.

at least the protestors gave malcolm a lift home, a courtesy cruelly denied to farage by today's milkshake militants

you dont shit on your own doorstepper

If you can't fight 'em, become one with the funnel:

https://eclecticlightdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/08/boschtemptationstanthonyna.jpg?w=978

wow dark souls 4 looks amazing

A Bosch-themed ARPG would be amazing tbh.

mocap titus welliver, a dream come true

looked up "riding out of town on a rail" (found more yetis being abused, you hate too see it) and chased on through to "rough music" and (what's this?) "charivari"

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Huck_Finn_Travelling_by_Rail.jpg

maybe you're right and it's already too late for such an approach, i dunno, i just tend to think we drag fringe things into the centre by expressing our hatred for them or ridiculing them on social media

That fringe party currently polling at 34% btw.

no wonder the yeti has developed such a criplling fear of contact with humanity, smdh

well exactly - it's not today or yesterday people decided they're hurting their enemies by discussing them ad infinitum all day on a platform which promotes the most mentioned things

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rough music

It hasn't vanished completely. During the 2012 anti-tuition hike protests in Quebec, it was our weapon of choice:

https://lesindignesduquebec.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/rc3a9volution-du-printemps-c3a9rable.jpg

In the television show The Waltons, the episode titled "The Shivaree" focused around a wedding between a city boy and a country girl. The groom almost calls off the marriage after being humiliated by a shivaree thrown by his wife's family and friends.

don't remember the waltons being this dark

It had its moments.

feel like ilx has been shivareeing away for years

Less successfully than Twitter.

People aren't going to stop talking about them on social media and even if they somehow did I'm not convinced it would make any difference to the standing of a party whose voter base is disproportionately made up of pensioners and the over-50s.

I'm guessing that May's 'New Deal' is just going to be a reheated version of the WA and will immediately be dismissed as such, but if Labour have somehow thrashed out a deal then that's suicidal for them.

people aren't going to stop doing lots of terrible, damaging things. we can only run our own lives.

if it has no effect either way people should talk about the politics they support on twitter.

Right *carries on talking about funny anti-fascist protests on twitter*

you seem sure enough so you may as well go for it.

I’m... fairly sure those are the politics I support yes

good you've defined them so optimistically

I'm going to go on twitter and post a photo-shopped yeti landing on Normandy beach in WW2. Real anti-fascist in action here!

Taking the debate to Hitler!

we need all the tweets we can get right now

30 years ago you would ignore a fascist in the street

EU Parliament investigating Nigel Farage’s funding.

that will play perfectly to his base.

30 years ago you would ignore a fascist in the street

not the argument i made tbf

but fuck it, it's not a hill i want to die on.

30 years ago was NAZI PUNKS FUCK OFF tbh

not an archie bunker I vant to die in!

there is no foolproof way of dealing with the far right: there's always a possibility your inaction or actions will lead someone else to sympathise with them. the milkshakes are a reaction to the fact they've already been put centre stage by the media, they are not short of oxygen or only looking for attention

EU Parliament investigating Nigel Farage’s funding.

― suzy, 21. maj 2019 17:03 (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that will play perfectly to his base.

― calzino, 21. maj 2019 17:03 (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Speaking as an outsider, but with what just happened in Austria, couldn't it hurt Farage quite a lot?

Theresa May is speaking now.

She say her job was and is to deliver Brexit.

And she wants a country that works for everyone, she says.

this feels like a poem missing its crushing volta.

Theresa May is speaking now.
She say her job was and is to deliver Brexit.
And she wants a country that works for everyone.
I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.
A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.
I have wasted my life.

from the charivari wiki:

The participants were generally young men temporarily bestowed with the power of rule over the everyday affairs of the community.

what could possibly go wrong??

The offer in the May speech: 1] UK will protect jobs by seeking as close to frictionless trade in goods with the EU as possible white outside the single market and ending freedom of movement

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) May 21, 2019

it's good not bad except when it isn't
said the yeti worriedly
as the pitch bubbled
and the rail approached

hmmm

May confirms there will be a vote on whether to hold a second referendum. To MPs: ‘Let the WAB have a second reading and then make your case to Parliament’ https://t.co/vuRCksHv8D

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) May 21, 2019

At first she tried to deliver this with Conservative votes. She even offered to give up the job she loved.

UK will protect jobs by seeking as close to frictionless trade in goods with the EU as possible white outside the single market and ending freedom of movement

https://image.spreadshirtmedia.net/image-server/v1/compositions/123872827/views/1,width=650,height=650,appearanceId=370,version=1439812226/some-people-just-want-the-moon-on-a-bloody-stick-this-could-either-be-given-as-a-gift-to-a-particularly-demanding-person-or-worn-and-pointed-to-app.jpg

May says this is a great time to be alive.

Britain can make a success of the 2020s and 2030s.

But it will not do that if it remains stuck in the Brexit impasse, she says.

Sunderland have some good young players coming through.

She says, with the right Brexit deal, she can end this debate.

She says the UK will have opportunities outside the EU. And it will be able to do even more if it has a deal. It can protect trade, and protect security partnerships.

This is a huge opportunity for the UK, she says - out of the EU, out of every closer union, free to do things differently.

May says this opportunity is practical and deliverable.

But it is “slipping away from us”, she says. In the distance, church bells ring. A car passes by. A child cries for its mother.

joking aside this speech is hilarious/tragic even by may's usual standards: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/may/21/brexit-latest-news-developments-cabinet-to-discuss-latest-brexit-offer-to-mps-as-ministers-feud-in-public-over-no-deal-live-news